Quote :

"The Clock is being machined and assembled in California and Seattle. Meantime the mountain in Texas is being readied. Why would anyone build a Clock inside a mountain with the hope that it will ring for 10,000 years? Part of the answer: just so people will ask this question, and having asked it, prompt themselves to conjure with notions of generations and millennia. If you have a Clock ticking for 10,000 years what kinds of generational-scale questions and projects will it suggest? If a Clock can keep going for ten millennia, shouldn't we make sure our civilization does as well? If the Clock keeps going after we are personally long dead, why not attempt other projects that require future generations to finish? The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors?" "

http://boingboing.net/2011/06/17/jeff-bezos-co-to-bui.html

8/16/2011 11:27:34 PM

8/16/2011 11:33:14 PM

This is retarded...

Why. Why the fuck do we need this.

This is like time capsules. 'We need to preserve it for the future to find!' Why don't you just put it in a goddamn museum and let people look at it now, too.

8/16/2011 11:33:24 PM

So people won't touch it, steal it, trample it, ravage it, bomb it, sabotage it over generations

8/16/2011 11:34:39 PM

What are the odds that it will still be working in 10,000 years?

That would be a pretty rosy future if people are actually around to party when it does happen.

LIKE IT'S 1999!

8/16/2011 11:43:46 PM

people will probably forget about it in like 100 years, or it'll stop working in like 200 years and people will think we're dumb (which we will be I guess, compared to them in the future)

8/16/2011 11:46:04 PM

Quote :

"Why would anyone build a Clock inside a mountain with the hope that it will ring for 10,000 years? Part of the answer: just so people will ask this question, and having asked it, prompt themselves to conjure with notions of generations and millennia. "

8/16/2011 11:46:09 PM

You know... the egyptians did something like this.



They're called pyramids and hieroglyphics.

8/16/2011 11:47:04 PM

i don't think the Egyptians built the pyramids solely for them to be there in 10000 years. but way to miss the boat on that one

8/16/2011 11:59:51 PM

You don't think.

8/17/2011 12:01:32 AM

no they built them as landing pads for their alien overlords

8/17/2011 12:17:25 AM